An Exhibition by Khaliq Alizada Date & Time: Thursday 3rd March, 6:00pm – 9:00pm Exhibition: 04/03/2011 – 18/03/2011 Location: FABRIKA Gallery Leicester 68-70 Humberstone Gate Leicester LE1 3PL Leicester, United Kingdom “The Exhibition will be focusing on daily issues and situations happening in Afghanistan specifically focusing on issues that thousands of women have been affected [...]
R.M. VAUGHAN Looking at ‘the other’ through very different lenses Rafal Gerszak at Pikto Gallery Until March 6, 55 Mill St., Building 59-103, Toronto; pikto.com/gallery Two very different photographic experiences await viewers with the fortitude to go stroller-dodging through Toronto’s Distillery District. Rafal Gerszak’s Thousand, a photo-documentary of the Hazara community in Afghanistan – a [...]
25.02.2011, Press releases The monumental Buddhas of Bamiyan once shone in glowing colors. Restorers from the Technische Universität Muenchen (TUM) have analyzed hundreds of fragments of the statues that were blow up by the Taliban. They have, for the first time, been able to reliably date the period in which they were sculpted, and have [...]
25th February, 2011: Ali Khan Sajjadi – a law graduate from the University of Buxlow, UK – has consented to join Hazara International Forum of Great Britain. He has been practicing law since 2005 with a London-based Solicitor’s Firm, known as Malik and Malik. The Central Committee HIF has approved and lauded his induction into [...]
DutchNews | Wednesday 23 February 2011 A 60-year-old Afghan man who was deported back to Afghanistan in 2006 after a five-year battle to stay in the Netherlands has been murdered in Kabul by the Taliban, the Telegraaf reports on Wednesday. The paper says the man was killed last September, but his death has only just [...]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has little standing in his way. Jean MacKenzie | February 20, 2011 KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s long-simmering governmental crisis is about to reach the boiling point. President Hamid Karzai is engaged in a standoff with his Parliament that could well cripple the legislature for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, the judiciary is [...]
Three American peace activists meet their young Afghani counterparts by Kathy Kelly, Jerica Arents, and David Smith-Ferri | The Humanist Published in the March/April 2011 Humanist Bamiyan Province in Afghanistan, a stunningly beautiful mountainous region, is located in the center of the country, roughly 100 miles northwest of Kabul. Most people here live in small, [...]
The United States has expressed concern over the Afghan government’s proposed changes to the regulation of women’s shelters, which will allow it to take over shelters for abused women. The proposal also brought protest from activists in Afghanistan, who said state-run shelters could put the women’s lives at great risk. Speaking at the U.S. State [...]
Basir Ahang | Hazara People | Translated by Liaquat Ali Hazara In August, last year, it was reported from Kunduz Province in north Afghanistan, that a young couple have been stoned to death by the Taliban. Although this barbaric act was severely condemned by various Human Rights organisations including Amnesty International who demanded of the [...]
Daikundi: Ten students were killed when ice avalanches fell down on houses in Daikundi province, an official said Saturday. The Daikundi Governor Qurban Ali Uruzgani told to media: ice avalanches had fallen down on two houses in Sang-i-Takht Bandar district of Daikundi province on February 13, this year. He maintained some bodies were retrieved from [...]
